EAN: 9780711289055

LONDONS UNDERGROUND - OLIVER GREEN GEBUNDEN

It is impossible to imagine London without the Tube: the beating heart of the city  the
Underground shuttles over a billion passengers each year below its busy streets and across its
leafy suburbs. The distinctive roundel  colour-coded maps and Johnston typeface have become
design classics  recognised and imitated worldwide. Opening in 1863  the first sections were
operated by steam engines  yet throughout its long history the Tube has been at the forefront
of contemporary design  pioneering building techniques  electrical trains and escalators  and
business planning. Architects such as Leslie W. Green and Charles Holden developed a
distinctively English version of Modernism  and the latest stations for the Jubilee line
extension  Overground and Elizabeth line carry this aesthetic forward into the twenty-first
century. In this major work published in association with Transport for London  Tube expert
Oliver Green traces the history of the Underground  following its troubles and triumphs  its
wartime and peacetime work  and the essential part it has played in shaping London’s economy 
geography  tourism and identity. Specially commissioned photography by Benjamin Graham (UK
Landscape Photographer of the Year 2017) brings the story to life in vivid portraits of London
Underground’s stations  tunnels and trains.

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